11. March 2010 ~ GTD

Since I am a kind of chaotic person, I've had always trouble with managing my tasks.
I once stumbled across GTD and found it very inspiring. I've tried "it", but it didn't really work out for me. I guess that was because I didn't manage all my task in one system and one day i realized that my work was as chaotic as before.
The only thing that i've kept was that i kept my mail inbox clean.

Now I'll try GTD once more, because I am still convinced that it would be good for my work.
I've found a tool called Getting Things GNOME! which integrates nicely into my Ubuntu workspace.

I am running version 0.2.3 which I found on the PPA.

I am optimistic that this time my switch to GTD is permanent, specially because of the aid from GTG.

29. November 2009 ~ Dedicated Server

Two days ago the password for my new virtual dedicated server arrived. I was eagerly waiting for it almost two weeks now. Since these kind of service is much cheaper everywhere else than in switzerland, i first had to get myself a credit card. It seems like today you have no other choice than having such a thing, if you want to make a payment to another country.
Anyway, I've got my server now and am very happy with it. I just love the way ubuntu/linux works, although it might sometimes to be hard to find a solution for a problem, but when I found it, it is mostly reasonable why it is the way it is (and if not my own lazyness or the lack of time is the only barrier which holds me from fixing it by myself).

22. October 2009 ~ Crystalreport Indention Problem solved

Tags: Crystal Reports, Text indention, VB.NET
Today i've solved a problem which has annoyed me a lot in the past few days. I've made a report for a customer which have some text lists with bullets for better readability. Sadly this readability is lost when Crystal Reports formats the text, so that the indention fails if the text wraps. I've searched the whole web, but found no solution until i stumbled over a paper saying that Crystal Reports allows negative values for the Property FirstLineIndent and LineIndent since Version 8.5. Well in my case it didn't. At least not in the first place. While clicking desperated through all possible settings of Crystal Reports i found out that negative values are allowed, but only for Formula Fields and not for Text Fields. So i could set the FirstLineIndent to -148(twips) and the LineIndent to 148(twips) which solved the problem.

Now the text gets pushed to the right 148 twips, while each "first" line is again pushed 148 to the left, which creates a perfect line up for Arial at size 12. Of course this values work only for this specific font and size but at least i can now format my text properly.

I'll add some more information and images later, if you need more information now, write me at contact@ my domainname (sorry there's not yet a contact page...)

15. October 2009

Today i've updated my page a little.

Since i am a programmer my design skills are not very sophisticated, as you clearly can see.